Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 9

Speaking of my father, bawo is the word used: of your father, uyihlo; of his father, uyise.

Who acts: Speaking · What happens: speak, be, use · To what, where: word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Demane and Demazana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Speaking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 word	csubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 father	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Speaking	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bawo	punct
6	bawo	bawo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 father	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 word	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 word	acl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 father	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 father	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 used	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 uyihlo	punct
16	uyihlo	uyihlo	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 father	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 father	punct
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 father	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 word	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 uyise	punct
22	uyise	uyise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 father	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 word	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund			of my father and bawo	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Speaking	the word	Bawo's father and uyise appos	tree rules
3	use	participle		the word not said here	your father and uyihlo parataxis	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Project Gutenberg book 71335 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 9